Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?

[yoshy]

does it read that way? it was more like 10 or 20 a day. As much as i wanted. (i was super stressed out at the time working with neglected kids..so my brain was in hyperalert mode as i mentioned earlier).

Yes that's how I read it, at least. But that's a common result of short comments - unless we write entire essays (which I certainly won't be doing lol), misunderstandings are just gonna happen. I'm sorry you were so stressed out at that time. I've been there, though my coping mechanism is retreating inward, and I hope you don't have to experience that again.

Your non-woo version is much more interesting to me from a psychological standpoint than the woo version.

 

[Todd Feinman]

What's the theoretical model to distinguish "synchronicity" and coincidence? A scientific approach would need to propose that to generate hypotheses to test.

A high level of symbolic overlap between the event and frame of reference and experiences of a person, within a given time frame. The events giving rise to the observed phenomenon and the observer's frame of reference will overlap occasionally. Could use / make an AI tool, but cataloging the observer's frame of reference and the multitude of external stimuli at a given time would seem to be impossible to do accurately. Precognition could be a meaningful form of synchronicity, or be related, but I don't need precognition to know not to open that topic!
<edit> Just now, word stimulus over and over again on TV, with regard to stimulus checks.

 

[deirdre]

Your non-woo version is much more interesting to me from a psychological standpoint than the woo version.

it's incredibly interesting. but like gravity i doubt there will ever be an understanding of why/how/what it is. and it doesnt help anything in anyway
(unless you give it meaning of course. it could be comforting like God letting you know He is there, but it could also be terrorizing too if you think it's Satan or the government doing some MKUltra type thing on you for example)

Precognition could be a meaningful form of synchronicity, or be related, but I don't need precognition to know not to open that topic!

I've thought that too.